President Pranab Mukherjee is speaking on the issue of 'Swayam Prabha's launch, a digital learning platform. He said that the digital platform can help in revolutionizing higher education in the country.

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President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday launched 'Swayam Prabha', a digital platform intent on revolutionising education in the country. Human resource development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javdekar paid special respect to the President on the occasion of Guru Purnima said that through this initiative, he gave respects to all the teachers of the country.

The President expressed satisfaction regarding the improvement in higher education in the country. India is all set to enter a new era in higher education on Sunday with the launch of hundreds of courses that will be delivered through DTH channels, tablets and mobiles.

The scheduled courses to be taught on Swayam will include engineering, management, science, humanities, language and mathematics. 'Swayam Prabha' is conceived as a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new content for at least four hours which would be repeated five more times in a day.